Prospects for improved seasonal Arctic sea ice predictions from multivariate data assimilation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 88, Issue , 2015, Pages 16-25

  Massonnet, François ^a   Fichefet, Thierry ^a   Goosse, Hugues ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensemble Kalman filter; Initialization; Ocean sea ice modeling; Sea ice; Seasonal prediction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; SEA ICE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; INITIALIZATION; OCEAN-SEA ICE; SEASONAL PREDICTION;

ICE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; KALMAN FILTER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 84924785930     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.12.013     Document Type: Article

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